# Adding sequence of square roots [closed]

How to add sequence of square roots from square root 2 till square root 99 and how to add the sequence of their reciprocal here is the original problem

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• What makes you think that this will have a nice closed form? The result is certainly going to be irrational. – JMoravitz Jan 26 at 18:23
• Do you want to find $S$ where $S=\frac 1{\sqrt {2}}+\frac 1{\sqrt {3}}+\frac 1{\sqrt {4}}+\ldots +\frac 1{\sqrt {97}}+\frac 1{\sqrt {98}}+\frac 1{\sqrt {99}}$? – Mohammad Zuhair Khan Jan 26 at 18:24
• Yes that's exactly what I want. – Mai Nagah Jan 26 at 18:25
• Do you also want $\sqrt {2}+\sqrt {3}+\sqrt {4}+\ldots +\sqrt {97}+\sqrt {98}+\sqrt {99}?$ – Mohammad Zuhair Khan Jan 26 at 18:27
• You could express this as a generalized harmonic number, the first as $H_{99,-\frac{1}{2}}-1$ and the second as $H_{99,\frac{1}{2}}-1$ respectively, but that is really just rewriting what you already wrote without computing anything. If you want a computed value, you could easily get an approximation using any powerful enough calculator or computer using a simple for loop such as wolfram. – JMoravitz Jan 26 at 18:27

The original sums you asked for have no nice closed form and so a calculator is going to be the only feasible way to get a numerical result.

The sum you link to in the image is a totally different one and will have a nice result.

Notice that $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{n+1}} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{n+1}}\cdot \frac{\sqrt{n}-\sqrt{n+1}}{\sqrt{n}-\sqrt{n+1}} = \frac{\sqrt{n}-\sqrt{n+1}}{n-(n+1)}=(\sqrt{n+1} - \sqrt{n})$$

You have as a result:

$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{1}+\sqrt{2}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}+\sqrt{4}}+\dots+\frac{1}{\sqrt{99}+\sqrt{100}}$$

$$=(\sqrt{2}-\sqrt{1})+(\sqrt{3}-\sqrt{2})+(\sqrt{4}-\sqrt{3})+\dots+(\sqrt{100}-\sqrt{99})$$

$$=\sqrt{100}-\sqrt{1} = 9$$

By the way if any one is looking for the sum of sequence of square roots here is the answer

http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org/Volumes/published/ram09.pdf